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Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: Joan Bauer is such a wonderful author. In this novel, you can be smiling in delight and crying moments later. This touching novel is very inspiring,and I would recommend this book to anyone. I read the book in 1 day flat. You get such a good taste of so many people in this book. I also highly recommend Hope Was Here, by Joan Bauer. I also read that book in 1 day flat. This is a great book for a 4-7 grader. Now, get started, and read Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer. I know you'll love it.
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Summary: Rules of the Road
Review: Jenna's life seems to be falling apart: her alcoholic father comes back into her life, her mother is working strange jobs at impossible hours, and Jenna has her younger sister to take care of. But then, Jenna is offered a break from her life in the form of a job as a chauffer. The president of Gladstone's Shoes, Mrs. Gladstone, is going to Texas in order to foil her son's plot to take over the company and merge with a low-quality shoe store at a stockholders' meeting. While on the trip, Jenna learns several lessons that will remain with her for all of life. Jenna learns the importance of teamwork, determination, hardwork, and veracity. At the stockholders' meeting, Jenna and Mrs. Gladstone fight with every last bit of grit inside of them. The result is quite pleasing. I recommend this book to anyone in search of a feel-good, girl-power book.
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Summary: *~Road~Rules~*
Review: Rules of the Road puts you in the driver's seat from the first page. We accompany Jenna on the interstate of her life, and help her to overcome, or outmanuever, the detours that she discovers. As her life becomes steadily worse, Jenna goes on a road trip to try to get away from it all. And she does. Any teenager reading this novel can easily relate to the low self-esteem issues that Jenna faces. The words on the page have a deeper meaning than at first glance, and often times you read the pages more than once to let their meaning wash over you. Rules of the Road has you laughing, hoping, and crying...but don't cry too much, you're driving, remember??
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Summary: Perfect Book
Review: This book is totally a teenage girl book. About one girl discovering herself and finding her place in the world. It's kind of unrealistic, but it was a lot of fun. The only problem is that it is really similar to Hope Was HEre- they're basically the same book really.
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Summary: Rules of the Road
Review: Rules of the Road is an interesting and humorous book about a girl named Jenna who goes on a road trip that will change her life forever. Jenna works at Gladstone's shoes, and is hired by Mrs. Gladstone, the store's owner, to be her personal driver for the summer. Jenna takes Mrs. Gladstone to other Gladstone's shoe stores around the states to prepare Mrs. Gladstone for her retirement, but Jenna definitely gets more than she bargained for! As the book goes on you are exposed to some of Jenna's personal problems, such as her father's alcoholism, and the fact that he isn't there for her as real fathers are, and her grandmother's Alzheimer's disease. You then see how the spirited teen deals with these problems and obstacles.
My favorite part of this book is how the characters are so colorful, different, and humorous. They spice the story up, and make it more interesting to read. Though this book is funny, it is also serious in some ways at the same time. It teaches important lessons, such as believe in yourself and you'll go far, that everyone should be taught. Rules of the Road is a great book; I highly recommend it. After you read it, you'll have some important lessons instilled in your head for the road of life, and the journeys you take on it.
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Summary: rules of the road
Review: Jenna Boller is an employee at Gladstone's shoe store in Chicago, IL. This summer she take the job of driving the President, Ms. Gladstone to her other outlets in different states. Jenna has to act as a spy and observe employees actions and customer's reactions. She is trying to save the stores from Ms. Gladstone's evil son Elden who has bad plans fro the stores. In the end Jenna pulls through and saves the shoe business.
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Summary: Rules Of The Road By Joan Bauer
Review: Rules of the Road was a great book. The chapters can be read fast and are not very long to bore the reader. Rules of the Road written by Joan Bauer is about a teenage girl named Jenna Boller. Jenna is a unique teenage girl with a loving mother, a sister named Faith, and an alcoholic father divorced from the family. Jenna is in high school and has just received her driver's license, and holds a job at a Gladstone shoe store where she makes herself an expert in shoes. Jenna sees her father alcoholism as a disease and knows that she can't help him. She stresses her need to get away from her life and finds a new opportunity to do that with her job.
Mrs. Gladstone the president of Gladstone's shoe store ask Jenna to drive her cross country for the whole summer. Jenna only having her license for six months is excited about the opportunity. Yet her mother is not. When her father comes back to town she changes her mind and lets Jenna take the trip. Throughout the book Jenna and Mrs. Gladstone travel to different outlets, they open up to each other and find they have things in common with how to sell shoes and more. Mrs. Gladstone's business is under threat from her own son selling the chain of stores to an undersold and cheap store. The book gives advice on how to over come obstacles in one's life to and expresses examples through the characters in the book. I personally think this is a good book and would recommend it to anyone that enjoys books that are fast and not boring with long stretched chapters. The road trip is very exciting and upbeat to keep the reader interested.
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Summary: The best
Review: I had to read Rules of the Road for a competition (yes,a book competition) for my English class. I didn't like the beginning because it focuses on how Jenna loves working at a shoe store/selling shoes. When Mrs. Gladstone, the owner of the shoe stores, makes Jenna her driver, the book starts to get better. Jenna is driving from Chicago to Texas, with an ornery elderly lady in the back seat. Jenna and Mrs. Gladstone form a wonderful friendship, also making new friends in the shoe business on the trip. Jenna really grows as a person, and you will fall in love with all the likeable characters in the book. You will hate the rival shoe stores, and even cry at the end. This book it great with it's amazing imagery and phrases. Joan Bauer is an amazing author!
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Summary: SL-Rules of the Road was great
Review: Rules of the road was such a great book and would like to thank Bauer for writing it. I really liked the characters since it made the book come alive-especially Jenna. The book was not boring at all and was always intriguing. If you want to read another great book by Bauer, try Hope was Here. It was fabulous!!
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Summary: ---> Rules of Life <---
Review: Jenna is a girl that hasn't experienced lifes treasures. Although, she works at an awesome shoe shop, and she is awesome at picking the right shoes, for people. She adjusts to every type, and age of crowds. But, Jenna also has a missing side of her, as her father is a drunk, and is now seperated from her mother. Jenna lives with her mother, and her sister also. Anyways, the owner of the shop, and all other shops with that name, has to stand up to her son, and not retire. So Jenna goes on a unforgetable road trip. ---I cut one star off, because of the disturbing talk about her father. But, I guess in some ways it does fill up the book with more jazz. ---I do reccomend this book!
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